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12-03-2011, 15:54
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CLOD
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: being planted in Jacksonville Fl
Boat: none
Posts: 20,773
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My Boat Scares Me
I went to my new boat today while moving stuff from the old boat. It had been 3 months since I had been to it (it's that frozen white stuff that lays around on the ground up here in the winter).
It's HUGE and I'm scared! You would thing one wouldn't be that scared of a 44' boat when they had been sailing a 39' one for a couple of years. But damn my Hunter 410 just makes my old Cal-39 feel like a toy! Fromthe helm the bow seems a looooong way away!
I look forward to getting over this feeling. Except when bringing it into the dock that will never stop causing fear in me to grow.
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12-03-2011, 16:03
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: W Florida
Boat: Still have the 33yo Jon boat. But now a CATAMARAN. Nice little 18' Bay Cat.
Posts: 7,083
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Re: My Boat Scares Me
Quote:
Originally Posted by Don Lucas
I went to my new boat today while moving stuff from the old boat. It had been 3 months since I had been to it (it's that frozen white stuff that lays around on the ground up here in the winter).
It's HUGE and I'm scared! You would thing one wouldn't be that scared of a 44' boat when they had been sailing a 39' one for a couple of years. But damn my Hunter 410 just makes my old Cal-39 feel like a toy! Fromthe helm the bow seems a looooong way away!
I look forward to getting over this feeling. Except when bringing it into the dock that will never stop causing fear in me to grow. |
Though I am not doing it right now, that is what I thought when, at the Miami show, I looked at the Antares 44i compared to my Gemini.
Perhaps you should go ahead and just throw on a bow thruster while it is out of the water. 
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12-03-2011, 16:08
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Miami
Boat: Boatless
Posts: 1,580
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Re: My Boat Scares Me
All you 5 star guys need to go sailing instead of writing about it...
Hell, my grand kids can handle a 55 ft boat!
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"Remember, experience only means that you screw-up less often."
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12-03-2011, 16:12
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cat herder, extreme blacksheep
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: furycame alley , tropics, mexico for now
Boat: 1976 FORMOSA yankee clipper 41
Posts: 18,967
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Re: My Boat Scares Me
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Originally Posted by s/v Moondancer
All you 5 star guys need to go sailing instead of writing about it...
Hell, my grand kids can handle a 55 ft boat! |
HANDLING IT IS EASY--IS STARING AT IT THAT IS SCARY....
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12-03-2011, 16:13
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2006
Posts: 9,398
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Re: My Boat Scares Me
Why scared? We're 44 feet by 22 feet wide, but it's not scary. Takes a little getting used to is all.
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12-03-2011, 16:20
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2009
Boat: Nassau 42 SV Ceol Mor
Posts: 794
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Re: My Boat Scares Me
2 years into a big for me boat, I am no longer scared of sailing it.
DOcking it is another issue entirely! 
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12-03-2011, 16:21
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cat herder, extreme blacksheep
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: furycame alley , tropics, mexico for now
Boat: 1976 FORMOSA yankee clipper 41
Posts: 18,967
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Re: My Boat Scares Me
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Originally Posted by Mimsy
2 years into a big for me boat, I am no longer scared of sailing it.
DOcking it is another issue entirely! |
MOORING IS EASIER.....WHY I DO IT...NO DOCK TO HIT IN PUBLIC... 
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12-03-2011, 16:22
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Miami
Boat: Boatless
Posts: 1,580
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Re: My Boat Scares Me
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Phil
"Remember, experience only means that you screw-up less often."
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12-03-2011, 16:26
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Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Philippines in the winters
Boat: It’s in French Polynesia now
Posts: 11,372
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Re: My Boat Scares Me
Quote:
Originally Posted by Don Lucas
It's HUGE and I'm scared! You would thing one wouldn't be that scared of a 44' boat when they had been sailing a 39' one for a couple of years. But damn my Hunter 410 just makes my old Cal-39 feel like a toy! Fromthe helm the bow seems a looooong way away!
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If you're giving it away, I'll take it off your hands.
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12-03-2011, 16:28
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Senior Cruiser
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: PORTUGAL
Posts: 31,081
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Re: My Boat Scares Me
Naah... its no different to using an MG then changing to a Bently...
You cant fit in them small holes anymore... and you need a bigger garage...
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Self Defence is no excuse for Genocide...
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12-03-2011, 16:29
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Halifax, N.S Canada
Boat: Tanzer 26, Walk22
Posts: 930
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Re: My Boat Scares Me
I hear ya when i went from a py23 to 37 it was mind boggling. First time going to the dock a nice 28 bay-liner slowed me down nicely. lol.... i use a mooring now.
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12-03-2011, 16:32
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Massachusetts
Boat: Finnsailer 38
Posts: 5,823
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Re: My Boat Scares Me
For some reason boats grow when they're out of the water (especially when you're painting the bottom) and shrink when they go back in. It won't look so big once you're launched.
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JJKettlewell
"Go small, Go simple, Go now"
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12-03-2011, 16:33
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: Stuart, FL
Boat: Kanter 52' cutter
Posts: 229
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Re: My Boat Scares Me
I went from a Irwin 43' to a Kanter 52'- the first day I owned it I had to dock it in Newport RI- singlehanded. I thought it looked like an aircraft carrier!!!!
A few years later I sailed it through Hurricane Noel... thought it was too small then.....
It's all a matter of perspective.......
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12-03-2011, 16:35
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Adirondacks
Boat: 1967 Alberg 35
Posts: 589
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Re: My Boat Scares Me
It will be VERY small in the ocean .
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12-03-2011, 16:48
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Registered User
Join Date: May 2008
Location: Nova Scotia until Spring 2021
Boat: Custom 41' Steel Pilothouse Cutter
Posts: 4,976
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Re: My Boat Scares Me
Quote:
Originally Posted by sailnautilus
I went from a Irwin 43' to a Kanter 52'- the first day I owned it I had to dock it in Newport RI- singlehanded. I thought it looked like an aircraft carrier!!!!
A few years later I sailed it through Hurricane Noel... thought it was too small then.....
It's all a matter of perspective....... |
A Kanter 52 is a nice boat...I nearly went for a Kanter Atlantic 45 in steel.
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